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January 06, 2015 Business Recorder | Reuters

LONDON/NEW YORK: Raw sugar futures on Tuesday rallied on fund and speculator buying from the prior session's three-month low, briefly triggering automatic trading curbs.

Arabica coffee on ICE jumped in a technically driven correction after touching a 5-1/2 month low on Monday, and was fuelled by forecasts of below-normal rainfall in Brazil.…

January 06, 2015 Reuters By Chris Prentice & David Alire Garcia

(Reuters) - Grupo Saenz has installed a top executive from its shareholder ED&F Man, as the London-based sugar trader seeks to revamp one of Mexico's largest sugar mills amid weak prices and concerns about demand.

Max Bonzo has been named Chief Executive Officer at Grupo Saenz, following the retirement in November of…

January 06, 2015 Reuters By Laura Zuckerman

Corn syrup was found to be more toxic to female mice than table sugar, shortening their lives and cutting their rate of reproduction, according to a study by University of Utah researchers published online in a scientific journal on Monday.

The research, funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, is among the first to…

January 06, 2015 The Jakarta Post By Linda Yulisman

A large amount of refined sugar leaked into the end-consumer market last year, a mishap that has resulted in price distortion in Southeast Asia’s largest consumer of sugar.

Almost 200,000 tons, more than 11 percent of the total 1.7 million tons of refined sugar produced by 11 producers between January and July 2014, spilled into the market…

January 06, 2015 The Hindu By R. Krishnamoorthy

This Pongal is a bitter season for sugarcane cultivators in the region what with agony piling up not only due to the failure of mills to settle their dues running into several crores of rupees, but also because the State Administered Price (SAP) has not yet been announced. Leave alone fixing SAP, farmers are thoroughly disappointed with the government over…